AWS gains PROTECTED status

AWS, the cloud computing business of Amazon, has now been certified by the Australian Government to host ‘protected’ data. This follows the April 2018 accreditation of Microsoft’s Azure/Office 365, which was the first large-scale public cloud provider to be granted PROTECTED status (read our blog Government rewrites security manual for coverage, and a bit of controversy, surrounding that milestone).

Forty-two of Amazon’s services have been certified to PROTECTED level, and according to Amazon’s blog on the accreditation, this means AWS offers “the most PROTECTED services of any public cloud service provider.”

Salsa Digital’s take

We’ve been using AWS's cloud services for many years at Salsa, and so we’re particularly thrilled that they’ve now completed the IRAP certification process and been granted PROTECTED level. Most of our existing projects are hosted on the AWS cloud, including the second-generation GovCMS and Victoria’s whole-of-Victorian-government platform, SDP. It’s also great to see cloud services expanding in Australian government.